Shobha De’s Novels expose the vicissitudes of modern society’s marriage system and marital relations leading to frustration, conflict and loneliness.The present paper focuses on agony of Maya who feels trapped in matrimony. This paper also takes up the issue of the psychic cum social complexities of middle class Society. Here, the story revolves around Maya, a pretty girl who is eager to escape her dull, middle class home in Calcutta for the glamour of Mumbai, where she moves after marriage to Ranjan, a handsome ambitious man who has an American University degree and a wealthy family background. Maya neglected and criticized by her husband and exploited and deceived by her lover remains a “Silent Sufferer”. The book's merit lies in De's ability
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As a writer, she is gifted with extraordinary ability to discuss the sensitive aspects of human life and human relationship tactfully. The gift of her narration is just wonderful. She is totally different from other Indian women novelists in English. She is gifted with intimate understanding of the psyche of women and her problems. Her novels expose the fissuresin marital relations in elite class.They expose the moral and spiritual breakdown of modern society’s marriage system and marital relations leading to frustration, conflict and loneliness. Second Thoughts (1996) is the seventh novel of Shobha De.It traces female sensibilities in young icon personality, Maya, who is also stumbling in her life, with bearing aspirations like marriage, love, career and self-identity. In the hustle-bustle world of modernization and globalization, today the young women are passing through some ofthe predicaments in their lives such as loneliness, search for identity, yearning for marital bliss and social status. Much of the action of the novel deals with this young middle class Bengali girl, who was born and brought up in Calcutta in a middle class family. Maya, the young protagonist is only child of her parent. She is an attractive young girl with warm and rich golden brown skin tone, gleaming jet black hair and large dark eyes. Her key worries were also about her future, marriage
As a writer, she is gifted with extraordinary ability to discuss the sensitive aspects of human life and human relationship tactfully. The gift of her narration is just wonderful. She is totally different from other Indian women novelists in English. She is gifted with intimate understanding of the psyche of women and her problems. Her novels expose the fissuresin marital relations in elite class.They expose the moral and spiritual breakdown of modern society’s marriage system and marital relations leading to frustration, conflict and loneliness. Second Thoughts (1996) is the seventh novel of Shobha De.It traces female sensibilities in young icon personality, Maya, who is also stumbling in her life, with bearing aspirations like marriage, love, career and self-identity. In the hustle-bustle world of modernization and globalization, today the young women are passing through some ofthe predicaments in their lives such as loneliness, search for identity, yearning for marital bliss and social status. Much of the action of the novel deals with this young middle class Bengali girl, who was born and brought up in Calcutta in a middle class family. Maya, the young protagonist is only child of her parent. She is an attractive young girl with warm and rich golden brown skin tone, gleaming jet black hair and large dark eyes. Her key worries were also about her future, marriage